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Only a few weeks before, Iraq's Premier Abdel Karim Kassem had been the nation's idol, but now the mention of his name drew sneers as well as applause from Baghdad crowds. As his tan Chevrolet station wagon rolled past the coffee shops on teeming Rashid Street, some coffee drinkers propped their legs on the café tables to show Kassem the soles of their feet-an Arab gesture of contempt. Demonstrators protesting last month's execution of 13 popular Iraqi army officers (TIME, Sept. 28) even dared to chant: "Allah is great, Kassem is crazy...
...came one evening last week with the suddenness of lightning as Kassem's car took him along the accustomed route through Rashid Street. As usual, little knots of surprised pedestrians stopped to wave or cheer, and some trotted in the dusty street hoping for a peek at the "sole leader." Then, from the sidewalk, a small group of grim men stepped toward the car and opened fire with a deafening clatter. A youth broke out of the startled crowd to hurl himself in front of Kassem as a shield, and a taxi driver rammed his cab between Kassem...
...Swarthy One. Before the dust settled, the assailants had melted into the crowd and vanished with a practiced finesse that befitted their leader, a swarthy professional assassin who has been killing for hire for more than 20 years. A shadowy Palestinian once employed by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Kassem's would-be killer, who is well known to the police, counts among his coups the shooting of an Arab sheik who had agreed to sell land to Jews and the murder of a British official on the steps of a church in Nazareth. Barred from several Arab countries...
...Cairo, Gamal Abdel Nasser was quick to raise his hands in horror at the news of the attack on Kassem ("I am against all this terror and killing"), but many guessed that he was just making a show of propriety. The United Arab Republic's campaign to topple Kassem has reached a screaming crescendo; fortnight ago Syria's tough Interior Minister, Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj, presided at a clandestine meeting in the Syrian town of El Haseke with anti-Kassem Iraqi army officers to discuss plans for Iraq's leadership should Kassem be overthrown. When the meeting...
...Karachi, Ne Win was able to fill Nehru in on some of the latest developments within the widening circle of the disenchanted: the U.A.R.'s Nasser was furious over Communist China's support of the Syrian Communist Party and its vocal admiration for Iraq's Premier Kassem; Pakistan was fuming over a set of Chinese maps showing some 6,000 square miles of Pakistani territory as part of China. As for Burma, only three years ago Peking had piously assured the Burmese government that there would never be any question about the Burma-China border. But Chinese...